Lucas Piazon admits he needs to have a special season at Vitesse Arnhem or risk another year away from Stamford Bridge, writes Dan Levene.

The 19-year-old Brazilian, one of six Blues on loan at Vitesse, has scored three goals this campaign and is looking to make ripples in London.

Even world cup winner Juan Mata has found it difficult to cement a place in the Chelsea side this season given the level of midfield talent at manager Jose Mourinho’s disposal.

For a youngster like Piazon, the task is huge, and the exciting Samba star is fully aware of the need to impress during his stint in Holland.

“The most important thing for me was to find somewhere to play a lot of games,” he said this week.

“My first hope was to stay in England and get some experience in the Premier League but Chelsea spoke to me and I came out here to see [Vitesse].

“There are a lot of players from Chelsea and we have a good connection. We all want a future at Chelsea but it depends on us

“We are young and on loan and we have to do something special with our season to get back and stay at the club.

“We know if we don’t have a good season we will be back out on loan again.”

Patrick van Aanholt, Gael Kakuta, Sam Hutchinson and summer recruits Cristian Cuevas and Christian Atsu are also out on loan at Vitesse this term in a bid to dazzle Mourinho.

Another one fighting just to pull on the blue shirt is Andre Schurrle, a key part of Mourinho's plans in recent weeks, but still not certain of a game.

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Schurrle will be keen to get in the side for Tuesday's trip to Schalke, local rivals to Bayer Leverkusen where he played for two years, and made the perfect case with a man of the match performance Germany in midweek.

Scoring a 19-minute second-half hat-trick in their final World Cup qualifier against Sweden, he looked a player impossible for most managers to drop.

His international boss, Joachim Low, praised the advances Schurrle had made since his summer move to London.

"I told him recently that last year I wasn't very happy with his development," said Low.

"But now, in some games with us and in England, he has shown again what he can do.

"He is dynamic, works back well and has a strong finish.

"His physical strength was also always an issue, but he has worked well. If he continues to play like that, the World Cup will certainly not pass him by."